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Bird of Paradise · Beat 94 · permalink

Forest

43:57–45:09 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:2244:22Frame at 44:5044:50Frame at 44:5944:59Frame at 45:0745:07

Play from 43:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 133–136. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless, wearing shorts, visible from back and side, moving through jungle visible
  • wearing a necklace or lei, visible from back, following p1 visible
  • Kelly (named at t:44:15): unspecified, only audible audible
  • Mario (named at t:45:02): unspecified, only audible audible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man walks through jungle foliage. [frame:1]
  • A person is seen from above, moving through dense leaves. [frame:2]
  • A person with a necklace runs through the jungle, viewed from behind. [frame:3]
  • Two figures are seen moving through dark jungle undergrowth. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 44:23 · “Hey, Mario, you're right! What do you like?” 45:02
Seen
jungle foliage [frame:1], necklace or lei [frame:3], shorts [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: escape, pursuit, nighttime jungle setting; style notes: high-contrast black and white, handheld or shaky camera movement, close framing on figures moving through dense vegetation

A shirtless man moves through dense jungle foliage at night, followed by another person. Dialogue includes calls to 'Kelly' and 'Mario', and expressions of intent to leave. The setting is dark and overgrown, with no artificial lighting visible.

“Kelly, Kelly!” 44:15 · “You ain't alley up.” 44:18 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Bird of Paradise (1932) at 44:22 (passage 43:57–45:09); US record: No renewal found

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